A CHURCH TROUBLE.
( ORR ESPD.NDEXCE PUBLISH ED. [nv TKI.OO It A I'I[—PER PRESS ASSOCIATION.] WELLINGTON, July 17 Correspondence has been puhlisho.l between the Rev J. Kelly (Editor oT the Tablet) and Sir F. D. Bell (then Minister of Justice). The former accused the Government of allowing armed policemen to go round the country, in order to make il sale for persons to ealiimnato Catholics. Being invited to specify a particular occasion, he replied that an armed police guard went through Central Otago, protecting persons who were attacking his church, and that Bill had made it clear that they need “expect no protection for our good name from the. Afassev Government and its officials.”
Sir L:'. I). Bell replied that an enquiry had been made, that Kelly had been misled, and the statement was contrarv to fact.
Kelly refused to accept the denial and asserted the policeman whose name he gave, did go tlirnugm Central Otago as a guard for Elliott and Griffith. He might not have carried a revolver, hut Kelly presumed he had a baton and contended that in that sense he was armed.
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Hokitika Guardian, 17 July 1923, Page 3
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185A CHURCH TROUBLE. Hokitika Guardian, 17 July 1923, Page 3
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